Some very interesting bits in Public Policy Polling’s preview of their New Jersey numbers:

Some folks thought it was a little odd when Chris Christie went on the air with negative ads against independent candidate Chris Daggett a few weeks ago but it seems to have been a good idea. Two weeks ago Daggett’s fav/unfav was 30/24. Now it’s 31/36. And Daggett’s negative rating with Republicans has increased by 16 points, compared to 6 among Democrats. Daggett has the same level of support he did two weeks ago, but now he seems to be hurting Jon Corzine more than Christie.

PPP also says that based on levels of enthusiasm, they expect very low turnout. Traditionally, you would say that’s good news for Christie, but I’m not sure this race in this year is traditional; Christie’s been running an anti-incumbent, “change” campaign, and if people aren’t interested in the race, it means either they’re okay with the way things are or they don’t think the election will change anything important.

Two weeks ago, PPP had Christie up by a hair, 40 percent to 39 percent with Daggett at 13 percent.